Last night at an event in Plant City, Florida, former TNA Knockout Santana Garrett – formerly known as Brittany – defeated Barbi Hayden to become the new NWA World Women’s Champion.
Santana won the match following a super kick and a Shining Star Press. She tweeted about her big victory late last night:
THANK YOU all for the love & support!! Could not be more EXCITED to be your new NWA world women’s champion! :D pic.twitter.com/6jmk43uxXs
— Santana Garrett (@BrittanyTNA) February 8, 2015
Hayden had held the title for 378 days. Santana follows in the footsteps of many of women’s wrestling’s finest, from The Fabulous Moolah to Mildred Burke and Leilani Kai, who have held the title since its inception in 1935.
Also occurring last night was an FWE Women’s Title defense by Candice LeRae. She held on to the belt in a match against Veda Scott.
In retaining the title, LeRae made heavy use of her tag partner Joey Ryan and overcame Tommy Dreamer‘s attempts to even the odds, hitting Veda with a neckbreaker to get the pin.
Ryan would pay for his interference with a Singapore cane shot to the back delivered by Veda.
You can read full results from last night’s FWE event on PWInsider.
